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Slow Internet?

I don't know if this should be posted here, but I couldn't see anywhere else to post it. If there is another section then could a mod please move it, thanks.

Anyway, just over the last couple of days my internet has been really slow. I contacted my ISP and they said that there was nothing wrong with their networks and to check my computer, which I've done.

Usually, I'm getting 5-5.5kb/s while downloading (Yes....the dreads of dialup ), but lately it's been going down to 2.5 or so. So everything I want to download is going at half the speed and taking twice the time, which is just inconvenient to me.

I had this kind of thing happen once before, but to a higher extent...and what was happening was that I had something on my computer that was opening a IE page (I use FF) and using G-mail it would spam the same person over and over, and I couldn't open the page up (Except one time which I don't know how I did it, and all I did was log out of G-Mail and it stopped until I rebooted). I don't know how I got rid of it, but I did...

Now I haven't noticed anything like this this time, but does anyone know if there is anything I can do to check if this is happening? There is nothing running in the background that shouldn't be...

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Also note that only a month or so ago I went through the big process of going through with someone from BC here and cleaning out my computer of all malware fully, so I don't think it would be malware...but it's still frustrating.

Also, I don't know if this had anything to do with it...and I didnt check to see if it is, but I noticed that when I first logged onto the internet all of the pages were slow, and while a page was loading MSN wouldn't log in, but as soon as I stopped loading the page MSN connected and from then on it hasn't been as slow (Although downloads are still going at 3kb/s or so instead of the 5kb/s.